(June 1, 2013 at 12:57 am)ronedee Wrote: You are comparing God to what you know...which is nothing remotely close to truth!Nice to meet you and appreciate your response ronedee. Even though I don't believe what you believe I can't help but smile at the sincerity of this response, in a good way, haha.
God loves us, and wants to give us what is His! But we need to earn that right through Faith in His Son, and His plan.
Lucifer wanted what was God's with no rights to it. That was the beginning of evil. God used Lucifer, and "the lie" (we could be like God) for His purpose to create Good from it. The "lie" would in the end be true, but by different means.
We are free to chose between Heaven and Hell. And it's what we wanted! Any other way would be God serving man!
Jesus said that after His death, God the Father, through the Holy Spirit would write the Truth in the hearts of all men! So, the answer is within. Some find it. Some suppress it. Some deny it.
We have to shed the worldly flesh and sin, to reach heaven! The only way is "to be born again, through water and the spirit". Making a physical departure (washing) from the old ways, and a new birth (spiritual evolution) to God's true form.
We can share in God's Divinity. But, we need to Love Him, and have Faith that He loves us. Be like His Son Jesus here. Be like God in Heaven! Amen!
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But if I am to be like God, that means that I am to be like an entity that chooses to allow evil to exist. Let's ignore the basis of my unbelief for the moment, which is that I see no reason to believe.
If I did believe, I am supposed to strive toward something which I cannot prove exists, cannot understand, and am not allowed to judge by the moral standards that have been given to me.
This makes no sense to me! How could I know that it is right to strive toward such a state? How could I possibly know, for example, that I am not being deceived?
If I did believe in God, I would have to believe in one that created me with a desire to understand things that I cannot possibly understand.